'A', the landlord, files a civil suit for recovery of rent from 'T', the tenant, for 3 years @ Rs.…

The court may frame all disputed issues and decide them after recording evidence. The alleged rent of Rs.7,000 and the tenant claim of Rs.2,000 create a factual dispute; a defence raising jurisdiction does not make that dispute a pure preliminary question of law. Order XIV rule 2 CPC permits separate preliminary determination only of the specified legal issues, while rejection under Order VII rule 11 cannot rest merely on disputed assertions in the defence.